Has Larry Hobson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $23,041 in general payments to Larry Hobson, MD across 58 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Larry Hobson, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Larry Hobson, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Larry Hobson, MD

Surgery · Atlanta, GANPI 1235177387

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $19,000 of the $23,041 with a category attached, or 82.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 93.9% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $15,955 and has fallen 96.9% since, to $501 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$23,041in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 58 payments — averaging $397.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$22K
Baxter Healthcare$589
Johnson & Johnson$314
TELA Bio, Inc.$128
Medtronic$118
Acacia Pharma Inc$86
plus $165 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$7203%
Food & beverage$3,32114%
Education$19,00082%

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
Intuitive Surgical	30	$21,641
Baxter Healthcare	9	$589
Johnson & Johnson	5	$314
TELA Bio, Inc.	1	$128
Medtronic	4	$118
Acacia Pharma Inc	2	$86
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$64
Stryker	1	$42
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	2	$31
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$19
ETS Wound Care LLC	1	$9

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$23,041 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 855 surgery providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$17,876

Medicare patients

Services billed

100

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Megestrol Acetate	13	$473
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	11	$121
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	26	$111
Metronidazole	11	$84
Oxycodone Hcl	16	$46
Pantoprazole Sodium	12	$40
Tramadol Hcl	14	$33

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Kenneth NewellAtlanta$50K
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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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